HO – To power its snow-clearing flangers through the Sierra even during the depths of severe winter snowstorms, Southern Pacific outfitted a select group of its EMD GP38-2s for snow-fighting service beginning in the early 1980s.

Now available from Common Standard Scale Models is a detail kit enabling modelers to add authentic snow-fighting details to any Athearn Genesis SP GP38-2 locomotive. These 3D-printed parts include one set each of icicle breakers in the “up” as well as “retracted” positions, snow shields for the inertial air intakes, rotary window defrosters, front windshield grating, horn heater, spare knuckle coupler boxes, and a drilling template for the icicle breakers. $20/kit. Available now, direct.

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Front view with icicle breakers in the deployed position.  The kit also includes icicle breaker details in the stowed position. Also included in the kit are the rotary window defrosters, horn heater and front windshield grating over the nose.

Kit components include one set each of icicle breakers in the “up” as well as “retracted” positions, snow shields for the inertial air intakes, rotary window defrosters, front windshield grating, horn heater, spare knuckle coupler boxes and a drilling template for the icicle breakers.  $20/kit. All are 3D-printed resin components. Available now, direct from commonstandardscalemodels.com.